An all new tutorial on this subject is available here as of May 2016! There is still some great information below – read both! Apps you create in App Inventor may be added to the Google Play Store. The process is not difficult but there are many steps to the process and you will need … Continue reading How to Place Your App Inventor Apps in the Google Play Store
I have set up a page to collect any corrections to my e-books. If you find issues in the books, post a comment here on the blog (http://appinventor.pevest.com) or on my App Inventor 2 Facebook page. Todd F. found an odd set of sample blocks code images in Chapter 3 of App Inventor 2 Databases … Continue reading New – e-book corrections page with updates, fixes
Volume 2 of the App Inventor 2 Tutorial is now available at Amazon as an e-book via this link: App Inventor 2 Tutorial Volume 2: Step-by-step: Advanced features including TinyDB. The e-book will also be available from Google Play shortly. Description MIT App Inventor 2 is a fast and simple way to create custom Android apps … Continue reading App Inventor 2 Tutorial Volume 2 is now available at Amazon
How to Connect App Inventor apps to Arduino Using Bluetooth Bluetooth is a low power, short range wireless technology built in to many phones, tablets and other devices. MIT App Inventor 2 supports a set of Bluetooth communication functions that may be used to send data between smart phones and tablets (see previous tutorials: Part … Continue reading How to connect App Inventor apps to Arduino using Bluetooth wireless
Part 1 of this tutorial introduced Bluetooth communications and implemented a simple method of sending text data back and forth between two Android devices over the Bluetooth wireless link. If you are not familiar with using App Inventor’s Bluetooth component, start with Part 1. In Part 2, a data packet concept is introduced to guide … Continue reading Part 2: Sending numeric data using App Inventor Bluetooth communications
(Some very minor updates were made to this in November 2019). This tutorial covers basic App Inventor Bluetooth communications code. Subsequent tutorials will add additional features. To implement and test this sample code, you need access to two Android devices – one to act as a Bluetooth “server” and the other to act as … Continue reading Part 1: Basic Bluetooth communications using App Inventor